Opportunity

Signy Centre and Cheap Charging

Imagine, it’s Monday morning and people are rushing to work or to the shops to get food for the week ahead. You turn up early at the shopping centre. You see that all the chargers are free so you check the price. Thirty Three centimes per kilowatt hour. You see a fantastic opportunity so you park by a charger, plug in the charging cable and start to charge.

This might trigger you to say “Who cares?” and I’d answer that thirty three centimes per kilowatt hour is a good deal. In other places it goes from thirty nine centimes to eighty centimes, if not one franc twenty per kilowatt hour.

A Walk in Night Fog

Yesterday morning I woke and looked out of a window and saw fog. For some, the reaction is “oh zut alors” as we think that we’re in for several weeks of being under the clouds, with the mountains as a weekend escape from a sun deprived time spent in fog.

An Indirect Walk

I took it as an opportunity. I could have walked from A to B last night. Instead I walked my usual walk. Along the way I looked for interesting photo opportunities. The fog was thick, and you could see water droplets floating in the air near lights.

Getting AI to Write an App

Yesterday I went to a talk where Claude and Cursor were used to write a Flutter app for Android. The idea is quite simple. “Claude help me write a to-do app and a shopping list app” before following the instructions produced by AI to write the app.

When I watched this I thought “This reminds me of the laravel tutorial that I followed at least two or three times. If you find a tutorial you can write the code by hand by copying it line by line, and function by function.

A Cupboard Filled With Books

Yesterday I went for one of my usual one and three quarter hour walks and when I came into one village I noticed a green cupboard so I opened it and looked inside.

A green cupboard
“When I think of all the books I have yet to read, I feel happiness.”

A green cupboard - “When I think of all the books I have yet to read, I feel happiness.”